SEVEN

Night Train

I found a high vantage point in Shibuya not far from the crossing - overlooking the train lines. Whenever I find a clean composition in busy cities it fills me with joy. I love seeing the details that you wouldn’t see from street level.

Night City

The Crossing

SEKAI NO OWARI

One of the first photoshoots I ever did - and for one of the biggest bands in Japan: Sekai No Owari, also known as End of The World.

Hong Kong Mansions

Roppongi Nights

Taxi Driver

I am often asked how my journey into photography began, and it all started with this one image.

A taxi driver waiting patiently in the rain for a couple to exit the love hotel - Kabukicho, Tokyo’s Red Light district.

Upon my second trip to Tokyo, I saved up for my first DSLR as a way to venture into filmmaking. I rarely ventured from tourist spots. Then one night it rained and the city lit up - it completely changed my view of Tokyo.

It was this image that I shared amongst friends and it really spoke to them, from there, many persuaded me to share them further, which is when I created an Instagram account in 2015.

I was always happy with the lighting, use of color, the composition, but most importantly it was my first taste at capturing a rare glimpse into the city at night.

Canon 5D Mark IIIEF70-200mm f/2.8L IS II USMf2.8, 200mm, 5000 ISO

Tokyo Glitch

Harajuku Umbrellas

Anime

Enter The Void

Any time I create something I think it’s important to always give thanks to those who inspired the work.

As such, I am forever indebted to the work of filmmaker Gaspar Noe and cinematographer Benoit Debie. Without their work and the work of some others I would not have seen what they saw.

Midnight Diner

Cyberpunk Alley

One More Light

Shibuya 109

Tokyo Nobody

Love Birds

Minutes To Midnight

Taken one rainy night in Shimbashi - the Tokyo terminus of the first railway in Japan in 1872.

Captured in one of my favourite alleys, I love the depth. The last train passing by, the man with the umbrella walking towards me, framed in the center of the shot with the reflections lighting up the dark alleyway. I waited in the rain for around an hour waiting for the right shot - this was it.